"In front of Xisai Mountain, egrets fly, peach blossoms flow and mandarin fish fat. Green bamboo hats, green coir raincoats, the slanting wind and drizzle do not need to return."
A group of soldiers and horses drove slowly towards Xisai Mountain, and extremely moving singing came from the largest carriage.
Li Xia sat in the carriage with her eyes closed and relaxed, listening to Tang An'an singing, which actually made her feel very enjoyable.
There is beautiful scenery outside the window, wonderful singing in the ears, and beauties in front of the eyes...and there are two of them, like two lotuses with parallel stems.
It makes people feel like Jiangnan is already decaying even before it is conquered.
Not long after, a city fortress standing on Mount Xisai slowly appeared.
Li Xia opened the car curtain, raised his head and looked at Jian, his eyes became serious.
Being corrupted is just an occasional extravagant wish. He is still determined and strict with himself.
This time, he came to do business - to raid Lu Wende's home.
Fang Yankai was strongly opposed to this matter. He believed that if the Song Dynasty was to be destroyed in the future, if Lu Wenhuan could seek refuge with him, he could sail thousands of miles along the Yangtze River and destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. Instead, he wanted to take the wealth of the Pin family now.
Then Lu Wenhuan would be angry, and more than 100,000 troops from Jinghu would abandon Xiangyang and come.
At that time, the Tang army was besieged in Ezhou, and when the soldiers and horses from Zhao and Song Dynasties in Huaihe, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang gathered in Xinjiang, they would definitely die.
"Don't lose a big thing because of a small thing!" Fang Yankai advised and almost burst into tears later.
But Li Xia seems a little stubborn, thinking that money and food are already tight, and he can't survive without taking the Lu family's wealth.
As for how angry Lu Wenhuan will be in the future, he doesn't care.
What Li Xia cares more about is that Lu Wende's huge corruption is not allowed in his court.
He can recognize Lu Wende's lifelong battles and great contributions to the country and the country.
But work is work, and mistakes are mistakes.
Lu Wende deserves to take back the ill-gotten gains he gained from greed.
Xisai Mountain no longer belongs to Jinghu North Road.
It belongs to Jiangnan West Road.
To the north is the Lianghuai Battlefield, to the west is the Jinghu Battlefield, and from the beginning of Jiangnan West Road it is considered the hinterland of the Song Dynasty. In comparison, the road is less exposed to war.
Lu Wende was originally from Anfeng, Huaixi Province. Because his hometown was suffering from wars all year round, he moved his family to Xisai Mountain after the rise of power.
This place belongs to Dazhi County and is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is separated by the river and is not afraid of the Mongolian army.
It is less than two hundred miles away from Wuchang County, making it convenient for Lu Wende to travel back and forth when he was guarding Ezhou.
Xisai Mountain is the gateway to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The mountain is inserted across the Yangtze River. It is said that "the wall stands in the middle of the river, and the horizontal mountain holds the water". It is the most important wealth of the Yangtze River.
The castle of Lujiazhuang is built on the mountainside, with steep and majestic peaks on both sides, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
In order to attack Lujiazhuang, Li Dao first sent Jiang Cai to attack Huangzhou on the north bank and attract the surrounding Song troops.
Later, Lu Xiaoxi and Qian were sent to attack Xifushan from the land route. They also sent the naval divisions of Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui brothers to blockade the Yangtze River to cooperate.
The government and naval forces cooperated with the blockade of the Yangtze River.
I thought it would be easy to attack the small villa with 6,000 troops, but I didn't expect that it would take a long time to attack.
Seeing that the army rations were already available, Li Xia decided to come and see for himself.
At this time, when he raised the watch tube, he realized that he had underestimated Lu Wende and Lu Jiazhuang.
The place in front of me is not a villa, but a town.
The main time made Li Xia feel like... Meng Gehan had arrived in Diaoyu City.
He even thought of Uluru Khunai.
There was no famous battle like the Battle of Diaoyu City in Mount Xisai, but in fact it was a battleground for the military strategists of Wu Tou and Chu Wei.
Sun Ce attacked Huang Zu, Liu Yu went to Hengyuan, Wang Cao attacked Soochow and other wars all took place here.
After Li Xia set up camp, he couldn't help but frown when he heard Lu Xiaoxi's battle report in the tent.
"The cliffs are steep and the river is fast, so it is difficult for the navy to anchor at the foot of the mountain; and to attack from land, there is a very dangerous plank road. The fortress of Lujiazhuang is high, and the grain and grass cats attack it with a heavy charge, resulting in heavy casualties.
"It doesn't matter, the New Year will be celebrated in three days." Li Xia said, "There is no need to attack around the city fort. Let the soldiers rest."
"The general will be incompetent."
"Not all fortified cities can be captured."
Li Xia waved his hand, and in turn tried to comfort Lu Xiaoxi.
"In the past, we fought against the Meng Yuan, who didn't like to defend the city. Therefore, whenever our army won in field battles, we could often recover the city. Attacking the Song Dynasty is different. This time, I won't even be able to capture Xiangyang in my own expedition. You have to get used to this."
Lu Xiaoxi still did not change his naivety as a country boy. He held his fist and said, "I will definitely break this turtle shell for Your Majesty."
"Go to the Qing Secretary to find Jin Shi Gou Shancai. I ordered him to bring Lu Wenfu. I want to find a way to take advantage of this, or there may be a way to break through the Xisai Mountain Fortress."
"The general will obey the decree."
The sky darkened, and a fire was lit outside the tent. December 26 passed, and soon a whole year would pass.
Li Xia knew that the Tang army's overwhelming situation was about to end, and the Song army would finally slowly react.
Just like Meng Qi's counterattack against the Mongolian army, the Song army always had to be caught off guard by the enemy before counterattacking, but once it counterattacked, it showed great tenacity.
Compared with the Mongolian army back then, the "unstoppable force" of the Tang army was really a bit reluctant.
Huangzhou cannot be conquered, and Xisai Mountain cannot be conquered. Li Xia is inevitably a little anxious. Occasionally, he also thinks to himself that the Lu family brothers are right to advise him to "stop as soon as possible".
Even when Li Yuan and Wu founded the Xixia Kingdom, they only benefited from the Song Dynasty and did not dare to force the Song Dynasty to become a vassal.
Yes, don’t read all over Mi Ting Biao Chen.
But he was the only one, Li Xia, who was convinced of Song Ting's weakness and that he always had to do things to the extreme or take risks.
"I won't dare to take such a risk next time." He made a rare introspection.
People always change little by little.
In the next two days, the Tang army's offensive still made no progress. But the news of Huangzhou's siege must have reached Lin'an, and the Song court must have been shaken.
As for whether the peace treaty Li Xia wants can be achieved, we can only wait for the news to come back.
On the night of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Li Xia was busy with military affairs and returned to the inner tent. Tang Anan took off his armor and said, "It seems we are going to spend the night here."
Before setting off for the expedition, he thought about spending the New Year in Chang'an or Lin'an, or at worst, he would spend the New Year at Lu Wende's home.
He never thought that he, who was once invincible, could be blocked by the Lu family army at the foot of Xisai Mountain.
Tang An'an, who has a good bag in his hand, explained softly, "It's very nice here. Peach blossoms and flowing water are sensitive to fish fat. It's just because of the slanting wind and drizzle that you don't have to go home."
Li Xia smiled and said, "I'm afraid Fang Qing will scold me again for not being like an emperor."
Recently, he himself felt that he did not look like an emperor. He came with thousands of soldiers and horses to ransack his home. It was completely the behavior of bandits and bandits, and he did not have the slightest bit of imperial demeanor.
If he is willing to listen to others' advice, he should accept the worship of hundreds of officials in Chang'an City during this New Year's Day.
In fact, Li Xia was learning how to be the emperor.
It was not a good idea to start with...
The maid Miao Lan suddenly ran in and was about to speak to Yan Rong. When she turned around and saw Li Xia was there, she quickly gave him a gift.
"Your Majesty, the school cabinet of Shu Jinxing in Huangzhou has brought someone to see you. They are several female crown princes."
"real?!"
Yan Rongyi stood up as soon as he heard it, looking a little excited.
She stood on tiptoe anxiously, her fingers twisted together, and turned to look at Li Xia.
"Where is he?" Li Xia originally knew this, but wanted to ask more clearly.
"The Feiyun Temple in the west is a Taoist temple with a female crown."
"Go." Li Xia then turned to Yan Rong and said, "You can go see her, just pay attention to your safety."
Yan Rong nodded vigorously and walked out in a hurry.
She has a first-class escort of her own, and they are Yi female soldiers arranged by Gao Mingyue, so her safety is not a concern.
Li Xia ordered people to come back at any time to report, and then he sat by the fire, chatting with Tang Anan, looking at the terrain map and thinking about how to capture Lujiazhuang in Xisai Mountain.
After an hour, Miao Lan ran back with red eyes and secretly pulled Li Xia's sleeve.
"His Majesty……"
This maid obviously still doesn't respect Li Xia as an emperor.
Because he brought food from Lin'an Palace and followed Yan Rong all the time, it was obvious that he had not yet felt his majesty.
Li Xia asked casually, "What's the matter?"
"Concubine Ning wants to bring her here to see His Majesty to ensure that she will not be harmful to His Majesty. I wonder if Your Majesty can agree?"
Li Xia sighed rarely, sighing that he had been too used to the demon concubine recently, but he reluctantly nodded.